Music in the ‘Hood: Bouzoukis, Bodhrans and More

Looking for something to do in the ‘hood Saturday nights? The Seattle Folklore Society hosts weekly folk concerts featuring musicians from around the country – right here in Phinney-Greenwood at the Phinney Neighborhood Center.

This Saturday, Oct. 17, a Vermont-based group, Woods Tea Co., will perform at 7:30 p.m. The SFS website notes that the group performs “bluegrass, Celtic tunes, sea chanties and folk songs with ease and skill.” They draw “on a wide variety of musical experience and expression, employing as many as a dozen different instruments from banjos, bouzoukis, and bodhrans, to guitars and tin whistles.”

(According to Wikipedia, a bouzouki is a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and a very long neck and a bodhran is an Irish frame drum.)

An out of the neighborhood note: next month, SFS will host a concert with the beloved Northwest duo Reilly and Maloney at the Maple Leaf Lutheran Church in Meadowbrook. SFS notes that:

With careers that date back to 1970 and the devoted following to prove it, Ginny Reilly and David Maloney packed houses all across the country in their first two decades together, sharing stages with the likes of Judy Collins, Tom Paxton, and Greg Brown. A ten-year hiatus followed, but the pair returned to performing in 2000 and the ensuing run has been no mere victory lap.